How one Winter Changed my Life!

How One Winter Changed Everything

Did I know what I wanted to be after high school? Not even close.
But a volunteer program after graduation led me somewhere unexpected — and life-changing.

At 17, I was placed at a workplace that offered therapy through woodworking and greenhouse work. By January 1999, I was working in a greenhouse for the first time… and I was hooked.

There’s something magical about a greenhouse in winter — the warm, earthy air, the smell of soil. I learned to take cuttings, start seeds, transplant, and something inside me clicked.

From Uncertain to Inspired

That experience led me to Olds College, where I completed diplomas in Greenhouse and Nursery Management, followed by a Bachelor’s in Horticulture. My field study placed me at a massive Alberta nursery where I fell in love with perennials — their strength, beauty, and the endless variety.

I wasn’t just growing plants anymore.
I was growing a passion.

Life Moves, But the Love Remains

Since then, life has been full — marriage, kids, moves, starting (and restarting) a greenhouse business. Through it all, perennials have remained my favourite. They’re resilient, shareable, and quietly powerful — just like the people who tend them.

Even now, as my business includes cold-pressed soaps and natural products, my love for plants still shapes everything I do.

That one winter changed the course of my life.
The greenhouse may not be my whole story, but it’s the soil I grew from.

From blooms to bars — created with love
—Heidi